There’s a shortage coming that nobody’s put on a slide yet: senior engineers. Every company on earth is about to want one who can drive a fleet of agents with judgment — and almost nobody …
  • anon_8675309@lemmy.world
    13·
    9 days ago

    Stop hiring and mentoring junior engineers and you’ve quietly unplugged the machine that makes senior ones. A few years out, you run dry — right when everyone else is dry too, and the price of the few left goes through the roof.

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  • absquatulate@lemmy.world
    12·
    9 days ago

    So soon? I figured it’d take a couple years for them to realize how they shot themselves in the foot by not hiring juniors anymore.

  • inzen@lemmy.world
    8·
    9 days ago

    IMHO. This haas been common sense for most senior devs for a while now. Looking at AI workflows there is little opportunity to build up the skill and experience required to become a senior.

  • chunes@lemmy.world
    6·
    8 days ago

    Companies are not only no longer taking on juniors, they’re making hardware prohibitively expensive. Where do they expect to get their talent if they force everyone to use their braindead toys?

  • annoying_cyclist@programming.dev
    3·
    8 days ago

    This post is the piece those two were circling around: what happens to the bottom of the chart, and whose job it is to fix it. Spoiler — it’s yours, senior engineer. It’s mine. And most of us are about to get it wrong in a very specific, very tempting way.

    BS. Most good seniors I know would love to hire more juniors, feel badly for the mass of recent college grads who are unemployed, and enjoy mentoring new engineers without needing a wall of AI slop to tell them to do so. When you give us control over the hiring budget and let us hire juniors again, you can blame us for the future senior engineer shortage. Until then, blame the people actually at fault (management, executives, the investor class), not us.